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How do smartphones affect

teenager’s life?
Many of us can relate to spending too much time on our phones, specially when we were
forced to stay at home. Sometimes, your phone even tells you just how much time you’ve
spent searching and scrolling with a weekly screen time report.

If your numbers aren’t pretty, you’re not alone. Even before the pandemic, the average person
spent about three hours minutes a day using mobile internet in 2019. This increased to 3 hours
42 minutes in 2020. And grew further to 4 hours in 2021.

Nowadays, the things got worse, almost 5 hours spending time at smartphone’s screen,
according to app monitoring firm App Annie.

Smartphones are an integral part of our lives, but what effect does all this scrolling and staring
at screens have on our brain? Here’s what we know.

Smartphones Affect How We Think


Research has shown that smartphones adversely affect cognition, said UNC Health neurologist
Dan Kaufer, MD, who spoke to Health Talk prior to his death in July. Cognition is the process of
acquiring and applying knowledge through thought, experiences and the senses.

With smartphones, you have a whole encyclopaedia and beyond of information at your
fingertips at any point in time. But this results in a much more superficial or shallow way to
access information. The more we rely on these types of information aids or sources, the less
work and processing our brains actually do.

In other words, our brains do not have to work hard to obtain the information, so we don’t
retain it as well either. For example, when you read a book, you generate the images described
in the book with your mind.

That involves making connections between different parts of your brain, when you look at a
picture that is already there, it’s much more passive. You’re not working [as many] parts of
your brain.

This applies to smartphones as well as watching television or a computer screen.


Smartphones Can Impair Social and Emotional Skills
The more time you spend looking at a screen, the less time you spend interacting in person
with others. This makes it more difficult to establish interpersonal connections and strong
relationships, which are important for mental health and the health of the community at large.

Before smartphones, all interaction was face-to-face, and there’s a richness of communication
that gets lost when you have a conversation on the phone or through texting. Because
smartphones and other devices give information and entertainment rapidly, they can make us
less patient with real conversation with people in our lives.

Also, that lack of face-to-face interaction can lead to depression.

Impact of Mobile Phones on Students’ Performance


Apart from the negative effect through the usage of these phones by the students, it also has
some other effects; which maybe psychological. The addictive nature of cell phones has
concerned psychologists for years.

Recently, psychologists have warned that phone users are especially at risk of becoming
addicted to their devices. In a recent study by Wargo, the subjects checked their phones times
a day. People may check their phones out of habit or compulsion, but habitually

checking can be a way to avoid interacting with people. Some people can experience
withdrawal symptoms typically associated with substance abuse, such as anxiety, insomnia,
and depression, when they are without their phones and all these are embedded to the course
of academic relapse of students who fall into this category. Surprisingly, these addictions take
strong toll on the student without them noticing it and some of them find it hard to believe
that they are addicted to their phones. Thus, giving more credence to the amount of time
meted out to these phones than academics. Chóliz, pointed out that excessive use of and
dependency on the cell phone may be considered an addictive disorder. In order to address
some of the issues attached to cell phones researchers chose different area of interest and
teasing them out.

Theory on adolescent egocentrism, pointed out heightened self-consciousness during


adolescence. The theory adolescent egocentrism stated that it is a stage of self-absorption
where the world is seen only from one; own perspective. Thus, adolescents are highly critical
of authority figures, unwilling to accept criticism, and quick to find fault with others.
Adolescent egocentrism helps explain why teens often think they are the focus of everyone
attention. Also, adolescence is a time of considerable physical and psychological growth and
change, which falls in line with the study of the student in the secondary Schools being
examined, on cell phone usage and acquisition among other. Most students like to keep track
ahead of their peers or to have an ontological balance in their peer group which they find
themselves. At the expense of their notions, they try to live the life which is expected of them
in the social settings which they find themselves instead of the ideal life; thereby pushing them
to the limit.
Smartphones affect sleep
The blue light emitted by your cell phone screen restrains the production of melatonin, the
hormone that controls your sleep-wake cycle (aka circadian rhythm). This makes it even more
difficult to fall asleep and wake up the next day.

A study, which has been conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro
Sciences (NIMHANS), states that excessive use of mobile phone during bed time adversely
affects the quality of sleep. Increased usage is associated with fatigue and insomnia.

Students who reported high use of cellphones also reported poor sleep quality, the study
found. That falls in line with prior studies that have found overuse of smartphones at night to
be associated with trouble falling asleep, reduced sleep duration and daytime tiredness.

Thank you!

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